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    <td width="33%"><p align="justify"><font face="Courier New"><b>PreludeIRC</b>  
      is an autonomous self-learning chatbot based on the PreludeJ-Engine
      incorporating the great (and free!) PircBot Java IRC implementation (my
      thanks to <a href="http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php">Paul Mutton</a>!)</font><p align="justify"><font face="Courier New"><b>Where</b>
      to find </font><font face="Courier New"><b>PreludeIRC</b>: Presently, a
      PreludeIRC Bot waits for you to chat with on*:</font><p align="center"><font face="Courier New" color="#FF0000">IRC
      Server: </font><font face="Courier New">irc-chat.net:6669</font><p align="center"><font face="Courier New" color="#FF0000">Channel:
      </font><font face="Courier New">#Wasteland</font><p align="justify"><font face="Courier New"><i>(*Either
      use your own favourite IRC Client (like <a href="http://www.visualirc.net/">Virc</a>)
      or use the IRC applet provided <a href="#" onClick="window.open('chat.htm', 'PreludeIRC', 500, 300);">here</a>
      - in another channel though: irc.ircstorm.net:6669, #Prelude)</i></font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font face="Courier New"><b>Some hints... </b>before
      you get frustrated:<b> </b>Consider the bot to be like a child. It wants
      to learn and for that, it will come up with all kinds of sentences.
      Sometimes it matches the context, but at other times it just repeats
      something it heard. Through your answers and explanations it will learn
      more and more. You can talk about pretty much anything. The more topics
      are covered, the deeper your conversations will be :-). <b>Enjoy!</b>&nbsp;</font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font face="Courier New"><b><font color="#FF0000">Important
      note:</font> Your Privacy </b>is important to me. None of your chats with
      my bots are recorded. Although it temporarily learns everything you teach
      him while chatting, unless you enter the key word &quot;learn&quot;
      nothing of your conversation will be written to its static memory. This
      means too, that during your next chat it will have forgotten the bits and
      pieces you told Prelude. So, if you have nothing to hide and would like
      other users to benefit from your teaching, just enter &quot;learn&quot;
      once in a while, and Prelude will update her memory file with whatever she
      learned during her talk with you.<b> Thank you!</b></font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font face="Courier New"><b>B</b><b>ackground Details:</b>
      Since its first release (fall 2003) Prelude has undergone a constant
      &quot;metamorphosis&quot;.</font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font face="Courier New">The latest<b> Prelude </b>version,<b>
      PreludeIRC</b>, is based on the<b> PreludeJ-Engine</b>, a recent Java port
      of the original Prelude Engine, which was developed in C++ (which is free
      for <a href="download.htm">download</a> here).</font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font face="Courier New">What is the difference between
      <b>PreludeJ</b> and <b>Prelude</b>? The basic concept is still the same
      (see how it works <a href="how.htm">here</a>), but during the port some of
      the algorithms have been revised and (hopefully :-) optimized. The <b>PreludeJ</b>
      Engine remains to be the core of a self learning, teachable chatbot, which
      learns and grows smarter through each single user input.&nbsp;</font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font face="Courier New">Nevertheless, there are some
      new features. A very interesting one might be this:</font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font face="Courier New"><b>PreludeJ</b> revises her
      own memory file from time to time. She is back-checking the newly learnt
      stuff with her memory file (&quot;mind&quot;) and in case she finds
      something to be a better answer, she will overwrite existing entries. Thus
      she is not just learning, and adding stuff to her memory file but does
      some (limited) cleaning and &quot;upgrading&quot;. I know, this feature is
      cool. It was really overdue :-).</font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font face="Courier New">If you have any questions or
      problems feel free to post a message or contact Prelude's developer!</font></p>
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